Can I give it all?

"If I saw you on the street, and you said, 'Come and follow me,'

But I had to give up everything--all I once held dear and all of my dreams.

Would I love you enough to let go?

Or would my love run dry when you asked for my life?

When did love become unmoving?

When did love become unconsuming?

Forgetting what the world has told me.

Father of Love, you can have me.

You can have me.

If you're all you claim to be then I'm not losing anything.

So I will crawl upon my knees just to know the joy of suffering. 

I will love you enough to let go.

Lord, I give you my life. I give you my life!!

When did love become unmoving?

When did love become unconsuming?

Forgetting what the world has told me.

Father of Love, you can have me.

You can me.

I wanna be where you are.

I'm running into your arms.

And I will never look back

So, Jesus, here is my heart!

When did love become unmoving?

When did love become unconsuming?

Forgetting what the world has told me.

Father of Love, you can have me.

My Father, my Love, you can have me."

~Sidewalk Prophets

"You can have me"

These Simple Truths (album)

When I listen to this song I just want to close my eyes, raise my hands and sing it with all my heart. Most of all I WANT to mean it. The problem is I have a sinner's heart. Wow! When I think about that first verse, I have to ask myself, would I do it? Would I love him enough to let everything go? My prayer is that I would. My prayer is that nothing would stand in the way between me and my Jesus. My prayer is that I would live my life as a sacrifice to him--not my will but His. Not my choices or comfort or happiness but, as the second verse says, that I would know the joy of suffering. Oooo, that one's hard. Suffering is not exactly something that I want to pray to "know the joy of." And yet Paul talks about suffering a lot in the NT as something we should not only expect but be joyful about. In James 1:2, James says "Count it all joy when you meet trials of various kinds."

I want to say "I will love you enough to let go. Lord, I give you my life." I want my love for him to be moving, to be consuming. That's exactly what I want!! I want my love for him to completely consume me. I want to forget the world and what it says and just say, "Father of Love, you can have me."

This is why I worship best through music. I love music. I love how songs make me think about my Savior and God. I can do that through old hymns or new contemporary music. I can do that with someone playing the piano or at a Christian rock concert as long as the glory is all for Him!!

"I wanna be where you are. I'm running into your arms. And I will never look back.

So, Jesus, here is my heart!"